Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
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Schumacher College/ Playroom
The Old Postern, Dartington Hall
TQ9 6EA, Totnes
Devon, UK
The seemingly disparate crises we face – climate change, economic instability, the rise of authoritarianism, and more – are actually connected. This means there is a way to tackle these problems simultaneously: systemic localisation.
Helena will describe how rebuilding our connections to one another and to the natural world can restore ecological health, rebuild secure livelihoods, and nurture peace and deeper human contentment.
Speaker
 . | Helena Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goi Peace Prize. Her inspirational book Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 35 languages. She is co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture and the producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. She also is the director of Local Futures and the International Alliance for Localization (IAL), and a founding member of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) and Global Ecovillage Network. For full biography click here. |